Hi, i’m Serge Gommers, born in Belgium just before the first men walked on the moon.
In high school i discovered electronics, and it clicked immediately. Also eternal thanks to my parents for buying me a TRS-80 Color Computer, which teached me how fun writing software can be.
Some years later, I graduated as an Electronics Engineer and helped design telephone line modems and eventually GSM mobile phones. While doing so my focus shifted from almost pure hardware design to software. These GSM phones needed calibration, and no off the shelve software products existed that could deliver the speed and optimum use of measurement devices to keep up with production.
All this piqued my interest in designing software even more, so i made a big career change by switching from a hardware oriented company to a software oriented one. This is where i learned there is so much more to software then i could know from my pure electronics education. The division of the company i started working for, specializes in offering patient specific, 3D printed, tools and medical devices to improve oral health.
Over the years the company made the switch from desktop software to mainly cloud based web applications, which gave me the opportunity to work extensively with the Azure cloud. I did take a sidestep from development to project management for several years, but came to the realization that there’s nothing like the joy of being able to create something hands on.
Stepfather of 3 young adults, my free time is divided between paragliding, woodworking, and tinkering with code and electronics.
